What I learned from my gun show tour

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/18/what-max-blumenthal-learned-from-gun-show-tour

Adam Lanza, the killer of 26 people at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, was raised by a woman, Nancy Lanza, who, her sister-in-law told reporters, was obsessed with guns and "prepared for the worst". With fears of an imminent economic collapse on her mind, Nancy Lanza is said to have stockpiled weapons and had an affinity with the "prepper" movement, an informally organized network of Americans convinced that looming disasters, ranging from the death of a family member to a Biblical apocalypse, require total self-sufficiency.

Lanza's paranoia and mistrust of authority may have contributed to her pulling her troubled son out of school, home-schooling him in a cloistered environment. On Friday, he murdered her with one of the assault rifles she owned.

In April 2009, at the dawn of the Obama era, I toured a series of gun shows in the American west. There, I encountered a subculture that closely reflected the survivalist mentality embodied by Nancy Lanza. Heavily armed and tightly organized through one of the most powerful political lobbies in the country, many of the gun show attendees I met had been incited into a paranoid frenzy by rightwing talk radio.

"People are worried about what's going on in government," a gun dealer with a silver mullet and a .45 caliber pistol strapped to his belt told me outside a gun show at a Reno, Nevada casino. "So consequently, people are preparing for the worst."

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1. This is the Hell Realm (R) that goes by the name of FEAR

Fear is the Hell Realm of the Soul where the RepubliWingers choose to cringe. They need to abandon their freaking degenerate, sour-soul Republican "Homeland," and attempt to find some true strength by moving psychically and emotionally to America - home of the brave.

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2. Gee!.. Could this be TRUE? I never saw it on TV

here in America. ...

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(for those to whom I am a stranger: )

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